Word: florida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coincidence that the launching site for the projectile in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon was distant from Cape Canaveral by only the width of Florida...
With the help of canceled checks and an affidavit, Bernard Schwartz made out something of a plausible case against Richard Mack, 48, an amiable Florida Democrat who had been thought of as a possibility for his party's future nomination for governor or Senator. Indeed, Schwartz was hardly off the stand before Attorney General William Rogers ordered the FBI into the case. Miami's Whiteside and FCC's Mack protested their innocence, and Mack requested a chance to give the subcommittee his side of the story. He was set down for the chance this week. Not before...
...protective buffer to icy arctic blasts. This winter, because of abnormal patterns in the high altitude winds (TIME, Jan. 20), the Bermuda high has been flubbing its job. Result: successive masses of polar air have flowed down the Mississippi Valley and eastward, spreading out to reach deep into Florida, to bring abnormal cold and, in the clash with tropical air masses, heavy rains and snows...
...cold wave hurt most in Florida, frost-singed nearly to its tip. Since December, southern Florida has had six freezes (three more than in any year since records began some 90 years ago), and weathermen are marking this as the state's worst winter...
...Dade County farmers ruefully reckoned losses at $25 to $30 million, hoped that the remaining 25% would not be lost. The effect was quickly felt in scanty offerings, high prices at fresh-vegetable counters in the North and East. In January a year ago, 1,787 railroad carloads of Florida-grown fresh beans, spinach, corn, new potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables moved to market. Last month the flow was 736 carloads...